The Resurection Project

md4wheelin wrote:

jealos-z wrote:

Ok Joe where are the pics of the Beadlocks that are gona make you and R&S Fab Famous And just so everybody knows Joe is never aloud to repaint his beadlocks there is a lot of time involved in them

Ill run them for the feb 14 run but after that that there getting repainted. Just from having them in the back of my truck during the snow I got tired of explaining why i had hot pink wheel with those nice tires

REAL MEN WEAR PINK

Yeah Joe I love the rims.

The price just tripled hope you made it back in time to get plowing to make some cash

lol, it took me almost 5 hours to get home after they shut down 83 outside of york. Then i worked till almost 5:30am then was back at it around 8 am.

I may just go ahead and do that one way and be done with it. Its not like i'm trying to win any type of beauty contest with the jeep.

looks like you might be making even more jeep money this evening (1-3 inches i hear).... then may bee again this weekend.....my wife said that with all the o.t i have been working that we can put the snow money to our card ..... i told her that all the snow that we have been getting is a message from god for me to order new tires for the buggy..then i

with all this bad weather I'm really glad i have a shop now or i would never get this thing done before april.

april? what happened to windrock

I was just saying it would take to april to finish. I'm still going to windrock. You and Nick still plan on going?

Lets see them wheels and tires

Well here are the coilovers I got from Rich

another shot of robs rims mounted

i moved the rear axle back 4"

here's the new stance

rob do you have anymore of that pink paint left? i think i may just paint the rims full pink and get rid of the lavender hearts.

that color looks alright in the pics

The pink when you put it against the green jeep looks almost like a dark red, That why i was thinking ill just keep the pink and loose the "I love you man" hearts from rob.

I think there is 2 full cans at the shop

Okay finally got the pics up loaded. Here are a few from the snows that we got a few weeks back. It snowed almost 70" in a week. On average most my loaders and trucks ran non stop around the clock for almost 8 days.






This tree had fallen across the road and had no options but to go under it because i couldn't back up the hill with the loader on the trailer. When i slid under the tree it was so close that i hit my roof and knocked both my mirrors in.

Okay now on to the suspension pics.








I also plated the frame rail were i cut off the old coil bucket (which was a real PITA) and will tie in the c pillar to the frame.


okay now a few questions
one problem that I'm facing now is that my d pillar is not tied into the frame directly were it conects to the body but off to the side. The tube is welded to a plate that is welded 1/8" floor that is welded to the original floor. The 3 tubes off to the left is what is tied into the frame.


So I was looking at a couple of options



or adding some more tube around the coilover that goes directly into the frame



I'm finally starting to get most my stuff moved into the shop. I'm hoping to have the lift installed in the next few weeks.

I also got tired of filling all the machines with five gallon cans so i installed a 105 gallon L shaped fuel tank in the back of my truck.

Joe I think what you have now for tubing now is fine. You have the tube going from over top of the coil to the b pillar that will transfer the load to the b pillar and out from there. I think you should be fine from what I see. Maybe just a gusset at the c pillar like in your first pic that would be all. Looks good did you flex it yet?

na, everything is just tacked together at the moment. I'm going to take the coils out and flex it out this week to see what kind of trimming i need to do to the body. I guess for tubing your right and that it really all comes down to how well my c pillar hold up. I'll do a run with it and see if anything begins to tweek. i'm always a little nervous if something is going to hold up or not the first trip out.

looks nice joe. i might be heading to rausch on march 13th weekend if you think it will be done for a shakedown run b-4 the dogs. not sure if it will be sat. or sun. though

Looking good Joe

Looks good Joe, but I think you need like 10 more pages and 30 more pictures of stuff before your done.

he is never done. he will make two runs on it and change it up before the next big dogs

This is true, Joe whats next?

what are your coil spring rates? coilover length?